Epigraphia Indica Vol 23

SR No.: 032577
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1935
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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No. 1.]
PENDRABANDH PLATES OF PRATAPAMALLA.
fulfilling trees to the supplicant. The kings, who were born) in their family, became famous as Kalachuris in the Chedi country. (In their family) was born king Kotaladora; who was a comet to the kings of the families of his enemies.
(V. 4) To him were born eighteen, very valorous sons, (who were) lions in breaking open the temples of elephants in the form of his enemies. The eldest of them was the lord of Tripuri, and he made his brothers the lords of mandalas by his side.
(V.5) In (that) family was born their younger brother, Kalingar#ja, who exterminated the hostile kings by the fire of his valour, and who was the full-moon to the day-lotures in the form of the faces of the beloveds of the mighty warriors of (his) wieked enemies.
(V. 6) He begat the moon-faced Ratnarāja, who had acquired a mass of religiotte merit by showing compassion to and conferring obligation on the whole) world (and) who, destroying his enemies by the valour of both his arms, spread his fame in the three worlds.
(V.7) From him was born king Pșithvideva whose prowess was like that of a tiger (and) in the mirrors of whose nails was reflected a host of princes who bowed to him.
(V.8) Then that glorious king's son was Jājalladēva who was, like the moon, without any spots, who was of radiant complexion and majesty, was the repository of good arts as the moon contains the kalās), was endowed with an inestimable form, was virtuous as the moon Has a well-rounded form), who possessed all the qualities and who was ar abode of all merits.
(V. 9) From him was born Ratnadēva of incomparable valour, who, in battle, Vanquished Chodaganga and Gokarnna (lit. made them turn their faces away).
(V. 10) Then was born to that king & son named Prithvidēva, whose power extended to the bounds of the circle of the earth, who whitened the world with his lovely glory, like a mass of snow, who devoted himself to the extermination of his wrathful foes in battle, as a lion does (in the case of) infuriated elephants and who was a destroyer of demons (i.e., wicked peoplo).
(V. 11) From him was borx king Jagaddēva, who possessed the prowess of a tiger and who destroyed the itch of fighting of all powerful kings.
(V. 12) His son was the glorious king Rattarāja, of wonderful fame, who was the excellent ornament of all Kalachuri kings, who filled the universe with the mass of his fame resembling & heap of blooming jasmine flowers, who destroyed all the hosts of hostile kings by the play of his massive arms, which were the masters of the circle of the earth to the extreme) boundaries.
(V. 18) Then was born his son, the glorious king Pratapa, who has cleaned the circle of quarters with the rolling waves of the ocean of his fame, who has surpassed Cupid by his form, who is the sage (Agastya) in drying up the ocean in the form of (hostile) kings, (who is) the crest-jewel of kings and who is always the philosopher's stone to the poor, the panegyrists, the Brāhmeras and the meritorious.
(V. 14) Pratapamalla, of great intellect, who is the lord of the earth, (and) the preeminent warrior of the world, and who, though a boy, is a second Bali in strength and has made, by his arms, this wide earth (look) small.
(V. 15) There was a Brahmana named Suvarnakata in the Päräsara-gotra, with three praparas-viz., Vasishtha, Sakti and Päräsara.
(V. 16) He begat Divākara, who was like the sun in this world, who knowing the essence of the Vēdas, dispelled the darkness of ignorance on the earth,
(V. 17) From him was born a meritorious (son), who has become well-known by the name of Sädhära, who, is (reckoned as) the (most) meritorious among multitudes of meritorious persons (and as) beneficent among those who make gifts out of compassion (and) who in form appears like the mind-born (Cupid) to the minds of ladies.
11.c., he caused their destruction.